Events

2012

Saturday, June 30The Ultimate Northwest Strawberry Experience
9am – noon, Thulen Farms, Skagit Valley. The day starts with a brief orientation with fifth generation grower, Chris McKnight and Shuksan booster, Jon Rowley. Then we hit a field of Thulen Farm Shuksan strawberries to pick the reddest, sweetest, juiciest most beautiful berries you can imagine…even more beautiful than you can imagine. Tickets are $40 each and include coffee, strawberry picking, two half-flats of berries, Strawberry Social, varietal tasting and discussion. Kids under ten are free except for the berries they pick to take home.

2011

2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 & January 16, 2011Walrus & Carpenter Picnic
6:30pm, bus departs Seattle for Taylor ShellfishThe object is to provide a benchmark oyster eating experience by which all subsequent oyster experiences will be judged. A picnic on legendary Totten Inlet at low tide in the dark and cold in the middle of the winter, and, if you are lucky, an icy gust of wind off the bay to season the experience…more than a little crazy, yes? Lewis Carroll’s “Walrus & the Carpenter,” a tale about how the Walrus and Carpenter lure the oysters for a walk on the beach and then proceed to eat every one, provided some of allure for this outing. The winter temperatures are perfect for the oysters as well as the wines. Lantern light, freezing weather, plump, sweet oysters just rousted from their beds and opened on the spot, award-winning “oyster wines” drunk out of Reidel stemware, a bonfire…just the right mix of magic and madness. When the tide starts coming in, it is time for a cup of Xinh Dwelley‘s hot oyster stew before getting back on the bus. See here for pictures from 2010.